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This collection of papers compares experience of microfinance initiatives in various countries and considers how far lessons from successful schemes in the South can be transferred to the North. Contributors emphasise the need for caution in transferring models developed in a particular context to a different one. What can be shared are strategies that cope with social diversity and difference, that are based on adaptation and learning through doing, and that are grounded in a common understanding of what it means to struggle for change in one's own society.